Did Celtic women fight in battle?
A modern-day re-creation of how a woman in Britain may have fought around the first century A.D. (Image credit: Alamy) The ancient Celts thrived in
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A bright orange sunburst illuminates Earth’s atmosphere during an orbital sunrise in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 264 miles above
Could we prevent dementia? A new trial may point the way.
LONDON — In the packed halls of the recent Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in mid-July, over 10,000 experts in brain research discussed strategies to beat
Total eclipse, shooting stars, and the Milky Way: Why Aug. 12 could be the greatest single day and night for skywatching for years
Skywatchers across North America and Europe should mark Wednesday, Aug. 12 on their calendars. From a daytime solar eclipse to the peak of the Perseid
Science news this week: Secret lives of whale sharks revealed, Earth’s coldest temperature registered, and Amazonian geoglyphs show clues to lost civilization
Happy Shark Week , science fans! To mark the occasion, we had a flurry of fishy features this week, including a first look at the
Why do cats have ‘leg whiskers’?
Cats are known for the whiskers on their faces. However, if you look closely, you can see that they also have whiskers on their legs.
A fire’s rumble reveals where it’s burning
Researchers tracked a prescribed grassland fire using infrasound, sound waves pitched too low for people to hear.
America’s gun violence epidemic, through the eyes of a Chicago trauma surgeon
Gun violence is a uniquely American epidemic, according to Dr. Selwyn Rogers Jr. , the founding director of the University of Chicago Medicine Trauma Center.
Science word of the day: Allele
Science word of the day: Allele Pronunciation: Ah-LEEL’ What it means: Genes contain the instructions for the various proteins that determine traits, such as eye
A strange string of a dozen galaxies keeps surprising astronomers with its missing dark matter
In a string of a dozen small galaxies hung in the sky like a row of cosmic fairy lights, astronomers have discovered a small, ghostly
NASA’s Newest Wind Tunnel Opens at NASA Langley
NASA opened its newest wind tunnel, the Flight Dynamics Research Facility at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, on Friday, providing a critical resource
Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons?
I’ll just say it: What the hell is going on with AI “reasoning”? Sorry for the air quotes. That punctuational side-eye was more common in
‘We are not giving up yet’: Private mission to rescue NASA’s Swift telescope is spinning out of control, and engineers are racing to fix it
A private mission to rescue an ailing NASA space telescope may now need a rescue of its own. The LINK spacecraft — designed by private
‘We weren’t really looking for’ it: Astronomers accidentally discover 2 supernovas that exploded from a single star system in cosmic first
Astronomers may have just found a first-of-its-kind phenomenon buried in the shadow of one of the Milky Way ‘s most famous stellar explosions: two stars